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Don’t be fooled – the ‘culture wars’ over face masks are a trick
By focusing on cultural issues not economic ones, cultural warriors hope to portray the Tories as being the voice of ‘ordinary people’ and Labour as being a bit weird, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
WHEN it comes to masks in shops, we have a small illustration of how a “culture war” works, and how to fight it.
Some parts of the left have got very worried about the weapons the right waves about in a culture war.
A culture war is a US description of backlash politics that shifts the argument from economics to issues of “traditional” culture.
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